CN108569616A - Elevator with automatically cleaning car sill device - Google Patents
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- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
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Abstract
The present invention relates to field of mechanical technique.Elevator with automatically cleaning car sill device is respectively provided with an automatically cleaning car sill device using the length direction of car sill as left and right directions at left and right sides of car sill；Automatically cleaning car sill device includes a shell, and a wind turbine is equipped in shell, and the control terminal of wind turbine is connected with the control system of elevator, and one end of shell is equipped with air inlet, and the other end is equipped with air outlet；Air outlet connects a gas blow pipe, and gas blow pipe is equipped with the first inflatable mouth, and the first inflatable mouth is towards car sill slot.The present invention elevator be equipped with automatically cleaning car sill device, using fan operation generate air-flow by car sill slot dust and tiny sundries clear up away with achieve the purpose that cleaning car sill slot；Structure of the invention is succinct, is applicable to most elevator on the market, and foreign and rubbish in car sill is effectively ensured, and prevents the rubbish card resistance elevator door in car sill from leading to the closing that elevator door cannot be normally-open.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to field of mechanical technique, and in particular to a kind of elevator.
Background technology
Elevator transports the tool of passenger as building up and down, and importance is self-evident.As what is frequently run up and down
Public space often gathers conduct below some rubbish, especially elevator door due to its manned characteristic of freighting in corner
The sill of guider is easy dust stratification in car sill slot and remains various tiny sundries, electricity may be then hindered when serious
It the normal switching-off of terraced door and opens so as to cause elevator faults, and car sill slot is more narrow, when cleaning can acquire a certain degree of difficulty.
Invention content
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of elevators with automatically cleaning car sill device, solve above at least one
A technical problem.
Following technical scheme may be used to realize in technical problem solved by the invention：
Elevator with automatically cleaning car sill device, including the car sill that is arranged below elevator door, the car
The top surface of sill is alongst equipped with a car sill slot, which is characterized in that is made with the length direction of the car sill
For left and right directions, an automatically cleaning car sill device is respectively provided at left and right sides of the car sill；
The automatically cleaning car sill device includes a shell, and a wind turbine, the control of the wind turbine are equipped in the shell
End is connected with the control system of elevator, and one end of the shell is equipped with air inlet, and the other end is equipped with air outlet；
The air outlet connects a gas blow pipe, and the gas blow pipe is equipped with the first inflatable mouth, the first inflatable mouth direction
The car sill slot.
Automatically cleaning car sill device, and the control system control for passing through elevator is arranged in the both sides of car sill slot in the present invention
Its operation is made, formula cleaning periodically is blowed to car sill slot；It is equipped with wind turbine in automatically cleaning car sill device, utilizes wind turbine
Operation generate pressure so that gas blow pipe is blown out air-flow, be used in combination air-flow by car sill slot dust and tiny sundries it is clear
It manages away to achieve the purpose that clean car sill slot.Structure of the invention is succinct, is realized by the control system control of elevator automatic
Operation, is applicable to most elevator on the market, foreign and rubbish in car sill is effectively ensured, prevents in car sill
Rubbish card resistance elevator door lead to the closing that elevator door cannot be normally-open.
The signal input part of the control system connects the signal output end of a time control circuit, passes through control system control
The run time of automatically cleaning car sill device processed is daily 2:00 to 4:00.
General daily morning 2:00 to 4:When 00, elevator is in standby unmanned use, therefore passes through time control electricity
The control system that road adjusts elevator starts automatically cleaning car sill device within this period, utmostly avoids automatically cleaning sedan-chair
The airborne dust that compartment ground device operation generates influences user's normal use elevator.
The top surface of the car sill is equipped with an infrared sensor, and the signal receiving end of the infrared sensor is described in
The surface of car sill；
The signal output end of the infrared sensor connects the signal input part of the control system.
When having user in morning 2:00 to 4:When in 00 this period using elevator, human body is incuded by infrared sensor
The infrared signal sent out so that using elevator and when opening elevator door, the control system of elevator can close to be currently running someone
Automatically cleaning car sill device, run the influence that is generated to user to reduce automatically cleaning car sill device.
The bottom of the car sill slot takes the shape of the letter U along longitudinal section in the front-back direction；
The surface of the car sill slot is covered with polytetrafluorethylecoatings coatings.
The bottom of car sill slot can effectively avoid dust and accumulated in dead angle for arc transition without dead angle, and poly- four
Vinyl fluoride coating has the characteristic corrosion-resistant, friction coefficient is low so that dust is not easy to be adhered on coating, it is easier to by automatically cleaning
Car sill device is blown out.
The top surface of the car sill is covered with photocatalyst coating.
Under the action of photocatalyst coating visible light, generates strong catalytic degradation and act on, it is toxic in the air that can effectively degrade
Pernicious gas and killing various bacteria, play the role of secondary.
As a preferred embodiment, first inflatable mouth of the gas blow pipe is connected with an extension pipe, the extension pipe position
In in the car sill slot；
The endcapped of the extension pipe is provided at least six through-holes on the tube wall of the extension pipe, and the through-hole is uniform
It is distributed in front side, rear side and the downside of the extension pipe.
If the length of car sill is larger, air blowing is difficult to clean the dust debris in the middle part of car sill slot, passes through lengthening
Air-flow is extended to the middle part of car sill slot by pipe, and dust debris is avoided to be accumulated at the middle part of car sill slot.
The length of the extension pipe is less than the half length of the car sill slot；
The internal diameter of the extension pipe is 4~6mm, and the pipe thickness of the extension pipe is 1~2mm.
At least two holders for being used to support the extension pipe are equipped in the car sill slot；
The holder is in Y-shape, includes the supporting rod on vertical direction, there are two the top connections of the supporting rod
Leg supports bar, two leg supports bars form a card slot for blocking the extension pipe.
Holder is set in car sill and fixes extension pipe, avoids damage of the extension pipe in elevator lifting because frequently shaking
It is bad to fall off.
The elevator further includes the landing sill being located in front of the car sill in elevator dock floor, the layer
The top surface of gate sill is equipped with landing sill slot；
As another preferred embodiment, the second inflatable mouth is additionally provided on the gas blow pipe, second inflatable mouth is directed at institute
State landing sill slot.
In elevator dock floor, car sill slot and landing sill slot can be cleaned simultaneously, with preventing layer door
The opening and closing of rubbish card resistance layer door in bank, have saved additional cost, more time saving and energy saving.
The aperture of first inflatable mouth and second inflatable mouth is 2~4mm；
The small at least 1mm in the aperture of second inflatable mouth described in the aperture ratio of first inflatable mouth.
Aperture relative to two inflatable mouths is identical, and the aperture of the first inflatable mouth is smaller so that the gas at the second inflatable mouth
Body pressure bigger, the gas flow rate of blowout faster, to reach better cleaning effect.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of the present invention；
Fig. 2 is a kind of sectional view of car sill of the present invention；
Fig. 3 is another structural schematic diagram of the present invention.
Specific implementation mode
In order to make the technical means, the creative features, the aims and the efficiencies achieved by the present invention be easy to understand, tie below
Conjunction is specifically illustrating that the present invention is further explained.
Referring to Fig.1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 have the elevator of automatically cleaning car sill device, including the sedan-chair being arranged below elevator door
The top surface of compartment sill 1, car sill 1 is alongst equipped with a car sill slot 2, is made with the length direction of car sill 1
The left and right sides for left and right directions, car sill 1 is respectively provided with an automatically cleaning car sill device；Automatically cleaning car sill device packet
A shell 3 is included, is equipped with a wind turbine in shell 3, the control terminal of wind turbine is connected with the control system of elevator, and one end of shell 3 is equipped with
Air inlet, the other end are equipped with air outlet；Air outlet connects a gas blow pipe 4, and gas blow pipe 4 is equipped with the first inflatable mouth 5, and first blows
Mouthfuls 5 towards car sill slot 2.
Automatically cleaning car sill device, and the control system control for passing through elevator is arranged in the both sides of car sill slot in the present invention
Its operation is made, formula cleaning periodically is blowed to car sill slot 2；It is equipped with wind turbine in automatically cleaning car sill device, utilizes wind
The pressure that machine operation generates enables gas blow pipe 4 to blow out air-flow, is used in combination air-flow by dust in 1 slot of car sill and tiny miscellaneous
Object is cleared up away to achieve the purpose that clean car sill slot 2；Structure of the invention is succinct, is controlled and is realized by the control system of elevator
Automatic running is applicable to most elevator on the market, and foreign and rubbish in car sill 1 is effectively ensured, prevents car
Rubbish card resistance elevator door in sill 1 leads to the closing that elevator door cannot be normally-open.
The signal input part of control system connects the signal output end of a time control circuit, certainly by control system control
The run time for cleaning car sill device is daily 2:00 to 4:00.General daily morning 2:00 to 4:When 00, elevator is in
Standby mode is unmanned to be used, therefore is started from clear within this period by the control system of time control circuit adjusting elevator
1 device of clean car sill utmostly avoids the airborne dust that the operation of 1 device of automatically cleaning car sill generates from influencing user's normal use
Elevator.
The top surface of car sill 1 is equipped with an infrared sensor, and the signal receiving end of infrared sensor is towards car sill 1
Surface；The signal input part of the signal output end connection control system of infrared sensor.When having user in morning 2:00 to 4:
When in 00 this period using elevator, the infrared signal that human body is sent out is incuded by infrared sensor so that someone uses electricity
Ladder and when opening elevator door, the control system of elevator can close the automatically cleaning car sill device being currently running, to reduce
Automatically cleaning car sill device runs the influence generated to user.
As shown in Fig. 2, the bottom of car sill slot 2 takes the shape of the letter U along longitudinal section in the front-back direction；The table of car sill slot 2
Face is covered with polytetrafluorethylecoatings coatings 13.The bottom of car sill slot 2 is that arc transition can effectively avoid dust and exist without dead angle
It is accumulated in dead angle, and polytetrafluorethylecoatings coatings 13 have the characteristic corrosion-resistant, friction coefficient is low so that dust is not easy to be adhered to painting
On layer 13, it is easier to be blown out by automatically cleaning car sill device.
The top surface of car sill 1 is covered with photocatalyst coating.Under the action of photocatalyst coating visible light, strong catalysis drop is generated
Solution acts on, and toxic and harmful gas and killing various bacteria, play the role of secondary in the air that can effectively degrade.
As a preferred embodiment, the first inflatable mouth 5 of gas blow pipe 4 is connected with an extension pipe 7, and extension pipe 7 is with being located at car
In bank slot 2；The endcapped of extension pipe 7, is provided at least six through-holes 8 on the tube wall of extension pipe 7, through-hole 8 be evenly distributed on plus
Front side, rear side and the downside of long tube 7.If the length of car sill 1 is larger, air blowing is difficult to clean in the middle part of 1 slot of car sill
Air-flow is extended to the middle part of 1 slot of car sill by extension pipe 7 by dust debris, avoids dust debris in 1 slot of car sill
Middle part accumulates.
The length of extension pipe 7 is less than the half length of car sill slot 2；The internal diameter of extension pipe 7 is 4~6mm, extension pipe 7
Pipe thickness be 1~2mm.
At least two holders for being used to support extension pipe 7 are equipped in car sill slot 2；Holder is in Y-shape, including is located at perpendicular
The upward supporting rod 9 of histogram, there are two leg supports bar 10, two leg supports bars 10 form one for the top connection of supporting rod 9
Card slot for blocking extension pipe 7.Setting holder fixes extension pipe 7 in car sill 1, avoids extension pipe 7 in elevator lifting
When fall off because of the damage frequently shaken.
Elevator further includes being located at the landing sill 11 in 1 front of car sill in elevator dock floor, landing sill 11
Top surface is equipped with landing sill slot 12；As shown in figure 3, as another preferred embodiment, the second inflatable mouth 6 is additionally provided on gas blow pipe 4,
Second inflatable mouth 6 is directed at landing sill slot 12.It, can be simultaneously to car sill slot 2 and landing sill in elevator dock floor
Slot 12 is cleaned, and is prevented the opening and closing of the rubbish card resistance layer door in landing sill slot 12, has been saved additional cost, more
It is time saving and energy saving to add.
The aperture of first inflatable mouth 5 and the second inflatable mouth 6 is 2~4mm；The second inflatable mouth of aperture ratio 6 of first inflatable mouth 5
The small at least 1mm in aperture.Aperture relative to two inflatable mouths is identical, and the aperture of the first inflatable mouth 5 is smaller so that second blows
Gas pressure bigger at mouthfuls 6, the gas flow rate of blowout faster, to reach better cleaning effect.
The above shows and describes the basic principles and main features of the present invention and the advantages of the present invention.The technology of the industry
Personnel are it should be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the above embodiments and description only describe this
The principle of invention, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, various changes and improvements may be made to the invention, these changes
Change and improvement all fall within the protetion scope of the claimed invention.The claimed scope of the invention by appended claims and its
Equivalent thereof.
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1. there is the elevator of automatically cleaning car sill device, including the car sill being arranged below elevator door, the car
The top surface of bank alongst be equipped with a car sill slot, which is characterized in that using the length direction of the car sill as
Left and right directions is respectively provided with an automatically cleaning car sill device at left and right sides of the car sill；
The automatically cleaning car sill device includes a shell, is equipped with a wind turbine in the shell, the control terminal of the wind turbine with
The control system of elevator is connected, and one end of the shell is equipped with air inlet, and the other end is equipped with air outlet；
The air outlet connects a gas blow pipe, and the gas blow pipe is equipped with the first inflatable mouth, and first inflatable mouth is described in
Car sill slot.
2. the elevator according to claim 1 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The control system
Signal input part connect a time control circuit signal output end, pass through control system control automatically cleaning car sill device
Run time be daily 2:00 to 4:00.
3. the elevator according to claim 1 or 2 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The car
The top surface of sill is equipped with an infrared sensor, the signal receiving end of the infrared sensor towards the car sill just on
Side；
The signal output end of the infrared sensor connects the signal input part of the control system.
4. the elevator according to claim 1 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The car sill
The bottom of slot takes the shape of the letter U along longitudinal section in the front-back direction；
The surface of the car sill slot is covered with polytetrafluorethylecoatings coatings.
5. the elevator according to claim 1 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The car sill
Top surface be covered with photocatalyst coating.
6. the elevator according to claim 1 or 4 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The air blowing
First inflatable mouth of pipe is connected with an extension pipe, and the extension pipe is located in the car sill slot；
The endcapped of the extension pipe is provided at least six through-holes on the tube wall of the extension pipe, and the through-hole is uniformly distributed
In the front side of the extension pipe, rear side and downside.
7. the elevator according to claim 6 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The extension pipe
Length is less than the half length of the car sill slot；
The internal diameter of the extension pipe is 4~6mm, and the pipe thickness of the extension pipe is 1~2mm.
8. the elevator according to claim 6 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The car sill
At least two holders for being used to support the extension pipe are equipped in slot；
The holder is in Y-shape, includes the supporting rod on vertical direction, there are two branches for the top connection of the supporting rod
Supporting rod, two leg supports bars form a card slot for blocking the extension pipe.
9. the elevator according to claim 1 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：The elevator also wraps
The landing sill in front of the car sill in elevator dock floor is included, the top surface of the landing sill is equipped with layer door
Bank slot；
The second inflatable mouth is additionally provided on the gas blow pipe, second inflatable mouth is directed at the landing sill slot.
10. the elevator according to claim 9 with automatically cleaning car sill device, it is characterised in that：Described first blows
The aperture of gas port and second inflatable mouth is 2~4mm；
The small at least 1mm in the aperture of second inflatable mouth described in the aperture ratio of first inflatable mouth.
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